UPDATE! Huge thanks to Elizabeth Alker and her production team on BBC Radio 3 - was a complete thrill to hear this track on her Breakfast show (17th July 2021). Thanks to everyone who has visited this page since and posted messages too! means SO much. So motivating!
(this is what she said if you didn't hear it live....https://soundcloud.com/helefonix-midlifemix/elizabeth-alker-radio-3-plays-how-to-fly?in=helefonix-midlifemix/sets/radio-introductions)

This track also made the coveted Fresh Faves from the Tom Robinson (and team's) Fresh Faves on 26th May 2021! A real honour and I'm positively buzzing!
 
"The beauty of How To Fly is instant...the most remarkable thing is just how organic and natural the track is... Helefonix is better known in the music scene as Helen Meissner, promoter and champion of independent singer-songwriters for the past decade or so. She discovered her creative muse in the form of an iPhone App during lockdown, and a few months of perseverance has resulted in an extraordinary output of creative variety and uniqueness” Andy Page, FOTN moderator.

"Hot on the heels of my 6 Music spin of Song Thrush Serenade, (thanks to Cerys Matthews), How To Fly sets BBC Radio 3's @IMcMillan's prose & dulcet tones to music, accompanied by a pastoral plethora of fauna & church bells. A bit of rustic charm & bucolic bliss. Out 28 May!"
This track is on my next EP Nature's Grace, which can be pre ordered here.
If you pre order, you will receive this track immediately as a download.
https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-fly-ft-ian-mcmillan

It's on Spotify too! (if you partake!) https://open.spotify.com/track/7vmAmQGOUlqaeo5xXMlSgG?si=1c78f908fef6423c

How To Fly combines poetry, pastoral vibes and eclectic beats. It features the specially written prose and dulcet tones of poet/broadcaster/presenter of Ian McMillan, presenter of BBC Radio 3's The Verb. (lyrics below)
Ian's distinctive, warm, Yorkshire burr provides the perfect vehicle for his evocative prose. A mellow tone pervades, set off by evocative strings and keys plus a plethora of found sounds. I've spent many a frosty morning recording local found sounds to bring the message in the track to life, the church bells from my village, blackbirds, robins, chaffinches, geese and lambs.
Release date 28th May 2021.

This track will be on the EP Nature's Grace which you can pre order here https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/album/natures-grace

TEACHING DARKNESS HOW TO FLY BY Ian McMillan

This light
Met that light
At last night’s 
Leading edge.

All light
Is found light
Between the back road
And the hedge

That light
And this light
Mix their colours
In the sky

All light
Is new light
Teaching darkness
How to fly

(Teaching Darkness) How To Fly ft Ian McMillan

Acapella found here :
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/23993/finger-in-the-icing-by-ashesanddreams-80bpm-chill-out-acapella

Lyrics by Ashes and Dreams :

Mama said don't touch
Til your dinner is done
Feel the pool rise up
Under your tongue
Patience is never fun

So you side-eyed her
Rounding the corner
Dug your finger in
Smoothing the rim
Tasting the flower of sin

It looks so good
It looks so sweet
Calling to you
Calling to you
Swiping your finger in the icing

It looks so good
It looks so sweet
What do you do
What do you do
Swiping your finger in the icing

Though he licked his finger clean
There was still a trace of cream

Naughty boys don't get no cake
Boy, you're making a mistake

Mama's boy been caught
Having a buttercream dream
Mama ain't no fool
Keeping her cool
Your day of reckoning

Mama worked all day
To put on this display
And when she served it out
To the big crowd
You got an empty plate

Finger in the Icing (Feat Ashes and Dreams)

Immense Matter

Listen on Spotify!

Hated LA

Grapefruit

I love the riff in this song.  I remember I wrote it long before a break up happened, and I wasn't able to put words to it.  Then, enter break up, and suddenly I had a lot to say, and this song came together.

Very much inspired by Motion City Soundtrack and blink 182's acoustic songs, Greek Taverna (Stay With Me) is one of my more personal songs that is sort of a "last attempt to save this thing" out cry, as both parties are watching it not work.

Check it out, and as always, thank you for listening.

Lyrics:

I see you there across the room
I know it's late.  We'll go home soon
So badly I've been wanting to ask
Do you feel this pull?  Is it going too fast?

Cold and sharp, I know who you are
I've seen this before.  It ends when it starts
Did I let my inner most fears come true?
Could this have worked if you allowed it to?

But baby if you want then stay with me
I'm thinkin there's a lot we both couldn't see
How many times have I had it good then set it free?
So if you want, then stay with me
Yeah if you want, then stay with me

Baby if you want then stay with me
I'm thinkin there's a lot we both couldn't see
How many times have I had it good then set it free?
So if you want, then stay with me
Yeah if you want, then stay with me

Too many times I see you sad
Starin' at me thinking how hard it is to be present here
So forgive all the men who treated you bad
It's a simple task but I can't even imagine

Greek Taverna (Stay With Me)

Cover design: 6402.
Cover photography: Evie S. on Unsplash

The Confines

From the EP 'Enthusiast' - free download from https://dudfence.bandcamp.com/album/enthusiast
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From the EP 'Enthusiast' - free download from https://dudfence.bandcamp.com/album/enthusiast
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From the EP 'Enthusiast' - free download from https://dudfence.bandcamp.com/album/enthusiast

Maxell Memories

With Time

Every little thing I say, Seems to mess around your day 
Every little thing you do, makes me want to fight with you
Every night you drive me to drink,  I'm trying to swim but I know I'll sink
You've been getting on my last nerve, and here's something that I observe 

Fighting is no way to be
Loving you is what I seem to need
Tell me, why do we even fight
Can't we find a way to make things right

Are you really gonna take it that far, Baby just get in the car
Remember when you kissed that guy, I was just saying goodbye
Come on say it to my face, You’re the one who made the mistakes
Maybe you’re just too blind to see, Quit playing games with me 

Fighting is no way to be
Loving you is what I seem to need
Tell me, why do we even fight
Can't we find a way back home for tonight

No one seems to win
When did it begin 
So flawed 
But such bliss 
Just lie and tell me this can fixed

Fighting (featuring Rielle.Life)

Palpable

Listen on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4XvMXDLPvdP3HhAykHlTJp

Grapefruit

rincs